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The end of an era: no more stuck cams. 2-Feb-2020 At 9:45:26 PM martym

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On 2-Feb-2020 One Day Hero wrote:
>Good fuching riddance!
>
>It blows my mind that anyone can be ok with prison slave labour. Imagine
>how annoying it was for other gear manufacturers trying to compete with
>a company which paid its production line staff two dollars an hour (plus
>kickbacks to the corrupt prison officials).
That's a bit of a twitter-reaction isn't it?
Read the articles:
"Inmates employed by Omega Pacific were paid from minimum wage—$7.16 an hour at the time—to over $9 an hour for a variety of jobs,"
"inmates who participate in this program were 87 percent less likely to re-offend than inmates who didn't. Besides learning how to become metalworkers, machine operators, clerks and assemblers, these men were able to remain a viable and integral part of the lives of their families on the outside."